Tool handle



E. w. DERR Tooll HANDLE ug. 19 1924. v1,505,379

Filed Sept. 26. 1923 r v i914. 1y

l1 x 1 '5V Earle Werm Patented Aug. :19, 19,24. y 4

STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EARLIEI DERR, OF AKRO'NQOHIO, .ASSIGNOR TO THE MILLER RUBBER COMPANY, OF AKRON, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.A

Toor. Hannan Application led September26', 19723. SerialrNo. (664,910.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be itl known that I, EARLE W. Dann, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Akron, in thevcounty of Summit andState of Ohio, have invented certain nefw and useful Improvements in Tool Handles, of which the following' is a specification.

My. ments 1n tool handles, and while shown herein as embodied in a saw handle, is adapted for uses in connection with various types of tools, as will be apparent.

Heretofore such handles have usually been made of wood, which to give the requisite strength, must be made of hard close grained wood, which involves material expense due to the cost of stock of this character and the cost of shaping and finishing the same.

The present invention aims to produce a handle which will be stronger and more durable than the ordinary wood handle, and which may be much more economically produced, and the invention comprises the novel article and the method of making the same hereinafter described, the nature and scope of the invention bein particularly defined by the claim appended hereto.

' In order that my invention may be better understood, I have appended hereto illustrative drawings in which Figure 1 is an 'edge view of a saw handle.

2 is a section on line 2-2 ofy Fig.

Fig. 3 is a partial plan of a mold used for producing the illustrated handle.

Fig. 4 is a section of the mold on the line 4 4 of Fig. 8 with the cores in place.

Referrin by reference characters to this drawing, t e numeral 1 designates the handle, which is of the usual or any desired form, provided with a saw blade receiving slot 1aL havi the customary rivet holes 1b. My improve saw handle comprises an inner body portion designated 1", which is composed of hard rubber compound of a cellular nature, to wit, hard rubber compound in which has been incorporated a suitable blowin agent before vulcanization which is gasiielyi by the vulcanizing temperature, and as the blowing agent is uniformly distributed through the com und in a line state of subdivision, the body) portion is provided with a plurality of evenly distributed minute resent invention relates to improve-` cells. This interior, or body portion, is surfaced by non-blower containing, hard rubber compound, as indicated at 1y, the walls of the slot or kerf l being formed of similar non-blower containing compound.

The handle is, or may be, reinforced by a wire frame 2', oneor both ends of which may be extended as desiredyand provided with a rivet receiving efye or eyes, as indicated at 2a. In the manufacture of my improved handle I use a metal mold 3 which is parted f in the center. A metal core f1 of the requisite shape and thickness is provided for producing the tool socket or slot 1B, this being sunk y adapt to ber clamped thereby inposition. The core is provided on each side with a facing layer 'of hard rubber producing compound not having any blower agent incorporated therein, as indicated at 1y in Fig. 4, and the walls of the mold cavity are likewise provided with layers of non-blower containing hard rubber. compound, the intervening space being filled with hard rubber producing vcompound containing blower material, as-.indicated at 1. The mold being closed and `subjected to the vulcanizing heat for the necessary period,

the heat first expands the blowefrwmaterial,

which causes the compound to expand and accurately fill the mold and conform' perfectly to the walls thereof, the several layers being finally vulcanized into a single homo eneous article. Obviously the mold may e engraved to provide any suitable ornamentation in the handle.

By this method I produce a handle which is light,'strong and durable, and which will have a finished appearance after it issues from the mold, whereby the necessity of any polishing, varnishing, or the like is done away with. I also produce a handle which is not likely to split on the line of the tool socket, which` is a seriousy objection 'to tool handles of wood, as customarily made.

clually into eachmold plate and being e Another important advantage of my improved handle is that it can be made of any desired or predetermined weight. In designing many tools it is necessary to so proportion the weight of the various parts that the tool will have correct balance. By the process used by me the material may be weighed before placing in the mold, and as y the blower causes the article to expand to cores, as indicated at 5.

Having thus described my invention, what g I claim is:-

A' scroll handle fora hand saw formed of hard sponge rubber with a hard rubber surface and reinforced by a wire following the general contour of the handle, and provid.-

ing a stiifenin means for the blade receiving part of s'uc handle.

' 'In testimony whereof, I ailix my 'signature. 4 i s EARLE W., DERR. i 

